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The paper provides information relating to redress processes for claims of abuse in New Zealand and where relevant the formal Government response to those recommendations. Information has been drawn from a range of sources including recent New
Filetype(s): PDF, Word Document Created Feb 2020
Public hearings
Distressing content warning. This statement was read on behalf of the Human Rights Commission by Disability Rights Commissioner, Ms Paula Tesoriero.
Filetype(s): Video, PDF Created Nov 2019
Public hearings Video, Statement
Distressing content warning. Ms O’Hagan provided historical context of abuse in the psychiatric system, including as it relates to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, key milestones between 1950 and 1999 and the survivor movement. She described what ‘abuse in
Filetype(s): Video, PDF Created Nov 2019
Public hearings Video, Statement
Distressing content warning. Presentation starts at 13:45. Professor Stanley gave evidence about the nature of abuse in State care based on her extensive research for the published book The Road To Hell: State Violence against Children in Postwar
Filetype(s): Video, PDF Created Nov 2019
Public hearings Video, Statement
Distressing content warning. Keith Wiffin went into state care at the age of 10 after the death of his father. He was sexually abused while at Epuni Boys’ home in the 1970s, and describes the many other forms of abuse he witnessed at Epuni. His
Filetype(s): Video, PDF Created Nov 2019
Public hearings Video, Statement
Distressing content warning. Moana Jackson CRSNZ (10 October 1945 – 31 March 2022) was a New Zealand lawyer specialising in constitutional law, the Treaty of Waitangi and international indigenous issues. He was an advocate and activist for Māori
Filetype(s): Video, PDF Created Nov 2019
Public hearings Video, Statement
Distressing content warning. Presentation start at 07:15. Mr Ledingham gave evidence about the abuse he and his two brothers experienced at the hands of a priest while students at St Joseph’s Catholic School in Onehunga (as detailed more fully in
Filetype(s): Video, PDF Created Nov 2019
Public hearings Video, Statement
Distressing content warning. Presentation starts at 06:30. Presentation starts at 04:30. Evidence from Sonja Cooper and Amanda Hill on behalf of Cooper Legal addressed:. The beginnings of the civil claims against the State for abuse in psychiatric
Filetype(s): Video, PDF Created Nov 2019
Public hearings Video, Statement
Distressing content warning. Presentation starts at 00:00:15. Sir Kim Workman (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitaane) gave evidence about his early experience as a Police youth aid officer in the 1970s, and his subsequent work detailing the racial profiling
Filetype(s): Video, PDF Created Nov 2019
Public hearings Video, Statement
Distressing content warning. Presentation starts at 00:00:25. As a freelance investigative journalist and photographer, and with lived experience of state intervention having been adopted and raised outside of his natural whānau, Mr Smale (Ngāti
Filetype(s): Video, PDF Created Nov 2019
Public hearings Video, Statement